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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Role of Regional Recovery Managers, District Recovery Managers, and Local Recovery Managers

67: Role of Local Recovery Managers

You could also call this:

"What Local Recovery Managers Do"

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If you are a Local Recovery Manager for a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee, this section applies to you. You would have been appointed under section 63. The chief executive of the unitary authority can tell you to do some of the jobs of the Regional Recovery Manager. You can also use the powers of the Regional Recovery Manager in your area, including the emergency powers in subpart 2 of Part 4. If the Regional Recovery Manager gives you directions during a transition period, you must follow them. You must also do any jobs or use any powers that the Emergency Management Committee or the law gives you. You can let someone else do some of your jobs if they are qualified and experienced, but you cannot let them delegate those jobs to others.

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66: Role of District Recovery Managers, or

"What District Recovery Managers Do to Help Their Community"

68: Duty of Recovery Managers to exercise powers consistently with national priorities, or

"Recovery Managers must use their powers to help the country in line with national priorities"

Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Role of Regional Recovery Managers, District Recovery Managers, and Local Recovery Managers

67Role of Local Recovery Managers

This section applies to Local Recovery Managers appointed under section 63 for a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee.
The chief executive of the unitary authority may direct that person to—
perform any of the functions and duties of, or delegated to, the Regional Recovery Manager of the Committee; and
exercise the powers of the Regional Recovery Manager in the area for which the Regional Recovery Manager is appointed, including the emergency powers in subpart 2 of Part 4.

The Local Recovery Manager must follow any directions given by the Regional Recovery Manager during a transition period.
Subsection (3) overrides subsection (2).
The Local Recovery Manager—
must also perform or exercise any functions, duties, or powers delegated to the Local Recovery Manager by the Emergency Management Committee or conferred on the Local Recovery Manager by this Act or any other enactment; and
may perform any function conferred on the Local Recovery Manager by delegation under this Act.

The Local Recovery Manager may authorise any suitably qualified and experienced person to perform or exercise any function, duty, or power of that Local Recovery Manager, except the power to delegate those functions, duties, and powers.

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2002 No 33 ss 30, 30A